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Alexandra Elbakyan, a 27-year-old researcher from Kazakhstan...was studying 'Neuroscience and Consciousness' in labs at Georgia Tech (US) and University of Freiburg (Germany)...she was forced to pirate papers for herself and other researchers. ^ "People". Georgia Institute of Technology.
APNEET JOLLY/FLICKR. Beyond being the founder of Sci-Hub, the world's largest pirate site for academic papers, and risking arrest as a result, Alexandra Elbakyan is a typical science graduate student: idealistic, hard-working, and relatively poor. In 1988, when Elbakyan was born in Kazakhstan, the Soviet Union was just beginning to crumble.
Feb 18, 2016 · Enter Alexandra Elbakyan. Hailed as a hero by open access acolytes, she's on a mission to make the world's science accessible to all. In 2011, the Kazakhstan native quietly launched a site called ...
- Julia Belluz
Feb 8, 2018 · Science’s pirate queen. Alexandra Elbakyan is plundering the academic publishing establishment. In cramped quarters at Russia’s Higher School of Economics, shared by four students and a cat ...
- Ian Graber-Stiehl
May 3, 2022 · About the speakerA full autobiography is available here: https://sci-hub.do/alexandra#bio. About the talkOn the 5th September 2011, aged 23, Alexandra Elbaky...
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Jun 27, 2017 · In this interview Alexandra Elbakyan, creator of the controversial academic paper database Sci-Hub, discusses the importance of making scientific information...
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Feb 17, 2016 · Alexandra Elbakyan has had enough. Elbakyan is a Russia-based neuroscientist turned academic Robin Hood. In 2011 she founded the website Sci-Hub, which has grown to host some 50 million academic ...